The Wylder West

Before we let you head off, a couple more questions... Do you have any hobbies that you'd care to chat about? Skydiving? Baking? Traveling? Whatever interests you — we'd love to hear about it!   I played drums all through school so I can play a lot of percussion instruments. I also played   girls softball all the years I was growing up and into college.  I spent five summers working on a whale watch boat out of Gloucester-I taught the crew CPR for passage and taught whale stuff too!  I rode motorcycles growing up. My Dad had two girls but we both rode.  And few people know this but I have seen the country group Alabama over 400 times in concert since age 16….it’s always been my favorite reason to travel, that and the ladies I traveled with. I’ve been to China for the adoption of my second daughter and that was a hard but fun trip!  I have also been a Registered Nurse since 1989! Right now I am the sepsis and stroke coordinator for a small hospital sout...

Kim, i t's so great to have you on The Wylder West blog this week! Thank you for joining us!  We've heard a bit about Christmas in the Wylder County Jail  and I think it's fair to say you've got most of us completely intrigued! This one is definitely going on my must-read list.  Do you have any other published work?  Deuces Wyld Dalton Payne has put the past behind him and returned home to Wylder. When a wash-woman accidentally dumps dirty water across his boots, he is intrigued by the amber-eyed beauty dressed in baggy clothing and a floppy hat. Before long, he can’t keep the loud mouthed tomboy out of his head. Falling for Leona is easy but teaching her to be a lady may be the biggest gamble of his life  Leona Fabray spends her days at the boiling pots in Wylder doing the town's wash. But when a famous gambler takes an interest in teaching her to act like a lady, she is sure she is being played a fool. That is until a single kiss by the handsome Dalton Payne s...

  An excerpt from Christmas in the Wylder County Jail : Russ glanced at the drink again. One small glass at a time or the whole bottle....it mattered little...Addie was right. He was no longer the man he even thought himself. Hell, he wasn't the same man as clear back to Sarah. And he'd loved her with all his heart, the same heart that broke when she'd chosen his brother Rick. He'd left Wylder out of necessity, letting his brother raise the son that belonged to him. But the shredding of his heart had come much later when he'd lost his wife and daughter to a fire while he'd been out hunting. He hadn't been drinking then, not even a little and look what had happened. He wrapped his fingers around the small glass. He'd buried his wife and later his brother, though nothing had come close to the pain of placing his small daughter in the ground. He pushed the glass aside once more, the bronze drink the only thing between him and the hurt that never ceased. But...

  Kim, now that we've heard a little bit about Christmas in the Wylder County Jail --which sounds amazing, by the way--do you mind filling us in on your early writing career? I'm wildly curious about it and I'm sure other readers are, too.  How did you get started writing? What was your journey to publication? I was probably about eight years old when I started writing  simple poetry and I always kept journals and wrote out ideas and thoughts. I still do some of that or at least I did until I started working on my novels. But I always had pen and paper in hand and I have always lived inside my head with stories. And I always had a book in my hand no matter where I went. As a child I would imagine more to a TV movie than happened and I would make up the rest of the story inside my head to make it more satisfying and so I didn’t have to tell the characters good-bye.  In 2001 I went to a writers conference with my childhood friend Sherrilyn (Kenyon) McQueen just to hang...

  Kim, welcome to The Wylder West blog!  So glad to have you as this week's author spotlight. I'm sure readers are looking forward to getting to know you and hearing about your latest Wylder West story! Please tell us about your Wylder story—we love Wylder and want to hear all the lovely details! Adelaide Willowby is having a bad day. First the madam of the Wylder County Social club has kicked out the love of her life—for good this time. One of her best girls is getting married and her sister and daughter are barely speaking to her. Then her long-lost brother-in-law shows up, claiming ownership of her business. What else can go wrong? Russ Holt has relied on alcohol to quiet the ghosts from his past for far too long. When his latest bender causes him to let down both Addie and his son, he knows something has to change. When a stranger in town is found dead and Miss Adelaide is arrested for murder, Russ smells a rat. Can he come out of the bottle long enough to save Addie—and w...

  Wylder Hearts by Kim Turner is a western romance that has it all—cowboys, stolen kisses, and plenty of action!  Wondering what goes on in this Wylder adventure? Take a peek at the blurb :  Caleb Holt is the man to see for a good horse. Abuse an animal and he'll teach the lesson that goes with it. When he lands on top of a woman in the midst of a brawl and snags a passionate kiss, he sparks a fire he never expected. But it doesn't take the cowboy long to learn a lesson of his own… sometimes love comes with a price. Seamstress Laurel Adams is embarrassed by Caleb's stolen kiss. Though she is determined to raise her son alone, she wonders at the ease of falling for the handsome horseman. But when the husband who abandoned her returns, there is only one choice to make—the one that breaks her heart into tiny pieces. Pick up your own copy of Wylder Hearts and fall into the story! Happy reading! 

  The Wylder West Series launched in December 2020 with four books:  The Wylder County Social Club by Nicole McCaffrey Wylder Hearts by Kim Turner A Walk on the Wylder Side by Laura Strickland A Wylder Christmas by Sarita Leone In the last few months three more Wylder books have been added to the series:  Wylder's Magic by Sherrie Lea Morgan Home in Wylder by Jane Lewis A Wylder Undertaking by Laura Strickland Wylder's growing! This Wyoming territory town filled with intriguing characters, wild adventures, and western romance. It's the kind of place that invites a person to come on in and sit a spell.  I've read all the stories so far and have enjoyed each one. Between us? I'm waiting on the next Wylder release! If you like your cowboys hot, your women strong and sassy, and believe in love, then you'll enjoy this series, too.  Why not mosey on over? Sit a spell? Fall under Wylder's charms...

  Medicines in the Old West It’s easy enough to establish while watching a movie or television series about the “Old West” there was limited access to any kind of healthcare. Just watch a few episodes of Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman or something of Doc Cochran from Deadwood and you will see their hands were often tied due to lack of resources. Medical care in the 1800s was growing fast in the civilized eastern cities such as Boston and New York, but even there some of the care would be viewed today as widely lacking even in the best facilities at that time. But take it out west, and if a doctor could be found, it was more likely he’d given better care to animals and had little access to anything that might be considered modern at the time. As I write my historical novels and because I am a Registered Nurse, I get into a bit of trouble with my editor because I can get a little too graphic at times when someone in my stories is injured. (And someone always gets hurt when cowboys are invo...